Dumbest Statements About Oil Disaster

The good folks over at AlterNet have compiled a list of the seven dumbest statements made regarding the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Personally, I am amazed that they were able to pare down the amazing number of dumb statements to only seven, but they have done it. I have simply listed the seven dumbest hear for your pleasure (with a snide statements of my own). To see what AlterNet had to say about each one, I urge you to go to their site. Here are the seven:

7. Rush Limbaugh

"But this bill, the cap-and-trade bill, was strongly criticized by hardcore environmentalist wackos because it supposedly allowed more offshore drilling and nuclear plants, nuclear plant investment. So, since they're sending SWAT teams down there, folks, since they're sending SWAT teams to inspect the other rigs, what better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing here."

(Obviously the pederast is back on the "hillbilly heroin".)

6. Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Mississippi)

"I would remind people that the oil is twenty miles from any marsh. ... That chocolate milk looking spill starts breaking up in smaller pieces ... It is tending to break up naturally."

(This jerk is not only wrong but sounds as though he never graduated kindergarten.)

5. Sarah Palin

"As an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico grows larger by the hour, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continues to stick to 'drill, baby, drill.' She added, 'I want our country to be able to trust the oil industry.'"

(You can't have a list of dumbest statements without including the Wasilla Witch.)

4. Bill Kristol

"If we hadn't stopped closer-in drilling after the Santa Barbara accident 40 years ago -- we've had these Congressional restrictions until 2008, for 40 years -- we'd have more drilling closer in which is probably less dangerous, less treacherous than trying to drill 50 miles out from the coast."

(How can he continue to be wrong about everything?)

3. T. Boone Pickens

"This is, you know, an unusual case but there've been others like this so I think way too much is being made of the... of the oil that's being... that's coming out there in the Gulf. All of that will get cleaned up and we'll be back... we'll be back to normal, the world hasn't changed because of this blowout."

(Maybe it's senility, because he used to make a little bit of sense.)

2. Tony Hayward, CEO of BP

"What the hell did we do to deserve this?"

(I'm just guessing, but could it have anything to do with the failure to follow even the most rudimentary safety precautions?)

1. Rush Limbaugh [again]

"The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is."

(I guess the ruined beaches, oily birds and dead marine life are natural too. What a maroon.)